Respectfully dedicated to my beloved "Pop," Richard *******, who in his great wisdom taught me to love Classical Music, the Beauties of the Natural World, especially, Birds, Flowers, the Sky and the Sea."Pop, I think of you always...and I miss you. I respectfully dedicated the Russian Easter Overture to you in memory of that long ago, warm Sunday afternoon when we enjoyed this sublime music together." XX00! "Little G".

To A Swallow

Sweeping ever o'er the marsh
With chatter shrill and yet not harsh,
With ne'er a thought for anything
But to catch insects on the wing,
To feed the nestlings waiting near,
But hid so well, you need not fear.
Flitting oft where none may follow,
How I envy you--0, swallow.

RHH 1928, age 14


Back to the Sea

'Tis Heaven to be on the sea again
Again on the deep blue sea
As I sail the boundless rolling main
With a staunch ship under me.

'Tis good to stand a lonely trick
While the quills fly overhead;
To watch the weather growing thick,
With a strange, yet pleasant dread...

'Tis great to see the rolling blue
And to feel the vessel pitch
A ship ne'er more staunch and true
Than my own good "Water Witch"...

RHH 1930, age 16

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